Guide of the Year Awards 2023 - Announcement

[Dreggit]

PSNProfiles is proud to announce the 10th annual

 

 

It's that time of year again in which the PSNP's communities' guides are weighed against one another to determine the best of the best. 2023 is our 10th anniversary of guide publications and this year proved to be a strong year in publications with 630 guides published to date this year.  Please give a round of applause to all of our authors and join us in preparation for the GOTY.

 

Just like last year, three winners will be rewarded with the Guide of the Year Award!  Also like last year, the format will be the same in where the team will be selecting the nominees with the community voting on the winners of each category. Unchanged however is that authors have a chance to win prizes in the 7 exceptional categories for guides in addition to the best overall top three guides. In total, 24 guides will receive rewards this year.

 

 

These categories are for:

• Overall Guide of the Year 2023: The best of the best of all guides chosen for the year. The candidates for this category are made up of the selections of the seven categories below.
• Exceptional Trophy Guide: Any guide of exceptional quality that falls under the base "Trophy Guide" format this year.
• Exceptional DLC Guide: Guides for pieces of DLC or patches that add trophies made under the "DLC Guide" format.
• Exceptional Gameplay Guide: Any guide that is made under the "Gameplay Guide" format this year.
• Exceptional Use of Formatting: Some writers make their guide so clean and organized it is like an artwork by making great use of headings, colors, images, etc.
• Exceptional Use of Original Content: Some writers go the extra mile and make their own videos, images, and combination of these within their guide.
• New Authors: To celebrate the overall success of the community, and to encourage new authorship, we would like to recognize guides of exceptional quality from new authors who had their first guides published this year.
• Returning Authors: We would like to take this opportunity in the 10th year anniversary to celebrate veteran authors who have consistently contributed to PSNP and have a tenure of three years or more who have published a guide this year.

 

Here are the rules:

• The guides in which the community will vote on will be hand picked and selected by the PSNP Guide Team and Moderation Team in round one, and then the community will vote on the selections made in round two to determine the winners.
  • Only guides published between January 1st, 2023 and December 31st, 2023 are being considered by staff in the chosen list.
• You may not vote for your own guides if they are nominated.
• A special voting thread will be created on January 12th, 2024, in which the community will be able to vote on the staff selection.
• The voting thread will be closed after two weeks. The top three guides of each category and the top three guides overall will determine the winners of each of the categories as well as the overall GOTY winner.
• Staff member guides are not eligible to win the GOTY, however, Co-op guides with staff members will be eligible, in case a co-op guide ends up in the top 3, the non-staff writer will get the whole prize.
• In case a guide has more than 1 writer, the prize will be split between all guide contributors, so long as they contributed a meaningful amount to the guide. We track all edits so this will be checked.

 

Disqualifications:

• An author may be disqualified from the GOTY qualifications, or GOTY recognition if they have received community strikes in the qualifying year. This includes Forum Mod points, Cheater Removal Team flags, Guide Team strikes (such as plagiarism and other occurrences), and general harassment in the community.
• Authors who are found to be soliciting votes, or are attempting to manipulate voting, will be disqualified from the event.
• Users who try to use alternate accounts will have all votes nulled.

 

Voting Requirements:

• You will be required to give a minimum of 2 choices per category. A list will be provided in the future voting thread under the seven qualifying categories.
• A user's vote is only valid if the users account is older than 1 year old, with 50 post older than 8 months. Authors are exempt from this restriction.

 

 

GOTY2023 Prizes:

For the moment you all have waited for, the GOTY2023 Prize Pool!

 

Every Guide Writer:

• The Ultimate Prize: is the satisfaction of helping gamers all around the world. Give yourself a well-deserved pat on the shoulder.  

Overall Top 3:

•   1st Place: a cash prize of $100
•   2nd Place: a cash prize of $80
•   3rd Place: a cash prize of $60

Exceptional Categories:

• 1st Place: a cash prize of $50
• 2nd Place: a cash prize of $40
•  3rd Place: a cash prize of $30

Random Voting Prize:

• 3 random voters will earn: a cash prize of $25

In total, there is a total of $1155! Exciting! That is a lot of money!

 

Besides the money prizes, GOTY winners will receive a special GOTY2023 seal and all nominations this year from the staff picks will receive a Seal of Excellence to commemorate your excellence and fame for years to come! 

 

We hope to see you all in a few weeks for when we reveal our staff picks and excited to see your feedback on what you think are the best of the best guides of the year.

Edited December 30, 2023 by Dreggit

[GothGirlMaxine]

Congrats to everyone who published a guide this year, and congrats to those who will be nominated! 

[Koekiej10]

Good luck to everyone! And @Dreggitthere is still a 2022 in the paragraph about the prize-pool  (first line)

Edited December 30, 2023 by Koekiej10

[ITALUKE]

Good luck hunters! May we all gather around to celebrate this year's guides :^)

[Tentativeuser]

This has truly been a remarkable year for gaming, and the selection process was incredibly challenging. I wish everyone the best of luck!

[FocusDR]

Good luck and thanks to all those who have provided thorough guides! 

[HuntingFever]

Good luck and fingers crossed for everyone who wrote a Guide this year .

[SquidGeneral10]

Here we are again! Well done to everyone who got a guide published this year. We all owe many of our platinums to the hardworking guide writers of PSNP ☺️

[UnboundedCash99]

good luck to every author that has written a guide! a very cool year for guides and helping out thousands of gamers all over the world!

[MidnightDragon]

Good luck to all the nominees!

[Argandalf]

Thank you everyone who takes time and help us hunters by creating guides. Good luck to everyone!!

[Lil-Gameboy123]

Good luck everyone and congratulations on celebrating 10 years! There were a lot of great guides in 2023.

But most importantly, congratulations to all the newcomer authors who have made their debut this year and have continued writing guides since then. It’s never easy to write a guide, but you all pulled through and expressed yourselves creatively while helping fellow trophy hunters around the world with your expertise. I wish you all good luck and may the best guides / authors win. ❤️

[PraiseTheFluppi]

Over 600 guides, you gamers are insane! Good luck to everyone! 🤞

[serrated-banner9]

Good luck guys and let's hope we get nominated  . personally got 1 published this year (Trivia for Dummies), would had done more but ddin't hae the time so i lost interest until recently, i have Minefield (thoguh trying to find words to make a high quality guide for this is surprising hard) and Picto Quest in the works though i doubt if either will be published before the new year (might be able to finsh off Minefield before the new year but it's hugely unlikely that it will be published until after the awards).

though we all know who's going to win GOTY

[Xylobe]

2 hours ago, Dreggit said:

A special voting thread will be created on January 12th, 2023, in which the community will be able to vote on the staff selection.

 

Pointing out a typo prize: nothing, and may God have mercy on my soul.

 

A huge thank you and good luck to everyone who published a guide this year!

[The_Kopite]

Want to get in my congrats in right now to all the authors who get nominated. These awards get better and better as legacy authors improve their game and new authors bring fresh energy and quality writing into the mix! Brilliant to see the growth of the quality of the guides and the variety of them in the few years I've been here and I know how awesome it is to get nominated too so again, congrats to the future nominees and bring it on!

[Fake_Mafas]

Good luck to everyone! Congrats to anyone who managed to get their guide published and especially to the future nominees 🙃

[Xillynoc]

Holy crap Lois, can't wait to see the nominations

[ahmedelebiary]

Good luck everyone ❤️ It has been a massive year in terms of published guides that's for sure 😄 can't wait for the nominees 👏

[angelbless45]

This has been an amazing year for both video games and also for trophy/gameplay guides. Congratulations to all the authors; you continuously push the limits of creativity and effort, making this an enjoyable journey to follow and be a part of.
 

Also, thank you to the incredible Guide Team🤩 for all your hard work in a record-breaking year for guides published!

Edited December 30, 2023 by angelbless45

[ObsiEez]

A massive congrats to everyone who created a guide this year! So many great guides came out this year so there will be some really hard choices for the Guide Team this time around for sure. I'm really looking forward to seeing the nominees this year!

Another massive congrats to the Guide Team who I think always get looked over by the vast majority of people for their hard work & dedication to helping authors get their work published.

Other fantastic year & here's for 2024 to be yet another year of fantastic guides!

[Jozxyqk_27]

Awww man, no Retro category any more? But they're basically the only Guides I make. Ah well, congrats to all of the eventual nominees.

[Dreggit]

34 minutes ago, Jozxyqk_27 said:

Awww man, no Retro category any more? But they're basically the only Guides I make. Ah well, congrats to all of the eventual nominees.

It's not that it's gone forever. There are always 7 categories every year, 5 are always set in stone (Trophy, DLC, Gameplay, Original Content, and Formatting), and 2 are always a wildcard that is dependent on that years publications. Other times though, we like to theme the wildcards with that years event, like when we did Retro & New-Age for the PS5 release year, and New Authors & Returning Authors this year.

[CelestialRequiem]

1 hour ago, Jozxyqk_27 said:

Awww man, no Retro category any more? But they're basically the only Guides I make. Ah well, congrats to all of the eventual nominees.

That was my favorite category as well. I feel you.

[Flynnerigan]

Good luck to all involved. I've really noticed this year that the quality of guides and the work from the review team has really been top standard. 

 

It's a thankless job a lot of the time but you're all doing incredible work.